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The second Glitch Pokémon faced by the J-Team, created by a Cipher experiment. Weaker than Missingno, but far more evil. Killed when Anom made a Heroic Sacrifice in order to lower its anti legendary shield.

And There Was Much Rejoicing: In comparison to Missingno, the only thing our heroes feel after killing him and Anom coming back is relief, with the trainers and legendaries having a party after his death.

▶▒ A▒ and its thralls

A fragment of XANADOS's attempted recreation of Missingno. that managed to be materialized and escape deletion. It started out nearly harmless, but gradually grew into a sizable threat intent on dividing and spreading itself throughout Sinnoh. In the final battle, it created facsimiles of many of the J-Team's old foes for a Boss Rush before it decided to fight on its own.

The Corruption: Some fragments of the main glitch have this quality. In particular, parts of it became the equivalent of Phazon in the Metroid Prime subplot.

Seemingly Hopeless Boss Fight: The final battle was this — taking the form of ♀, it nearly sang the entire J-Team to death before time was reversed and the J-Team was given permission to bend space.

Ridley

A Charizard leader of a gang of Gible-line goons who, upon angering a piece of ▶▒ A▒, got fused with one of his Gabite lackeys and became a glitch hybrid of the two.

Ascended Glitch: Inspired by the Glitch Hybrids of both the Gen I and IV games.

Capture and Replicate: Commanded his underlings to find another piece of ▶▒ A▒ in order to study and experiment with it.

Two Beings, One Body: Although Ridley himself maintains strict control over their glitch-hybrid body, the Gabite he fused with also has its own mind.

The Shards of Calamity

A trio of extremely powerful Glitches, remnants of the Calamity Alovye, that accost the J-Team over the course of Re: Glitch, Alola, and the Entralink Arcs.

Hero Killer: The Shards are extremely dangerous and every battle the J-Team has with them ends with at least one person seriously injured. Chaos in particular injures most of the J-Team so badly that had Giselle not been there a couple would've likely died from their injuries, and when faced with Tragedy for the first time during the School raid, the J-Team is forced to run and attempt collapsing the base on top of it in order to get away.

Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: Discussed. Wonders why Cyrus chose to try using Primal Dialga to kill DS instead of a far more mundane method such as merely slitting her throat. It overlaps with Irony because he never tried doing that with Tagg.

In General

Arch-Enemy: There is no love lost between the few remnants of unrepentant former Pokefutures personnel who ended up either working independently or joining teams, and the PEFE, with a segment of the latter organization dedicated to catching those who escaped justice.

The Atoner: Some Pokefutures personnel, mainly those less involved with its shady dealings, ended up joining the PEFE after it fell.

Fantastic Racism: They consider Pokémon to just be nonsapient animals and see fit to do what would be considered felony-class animal abuse on them for their experiments, and any human who thinks otherwise to be akin to members of Animal Wrongs Groups. This tends to be their downfall when Pokémon prove to be much smarter than they think.

Meaningful Name: The lack of an "é" is no accident, it's meant to signify their utter contempt for Pokémon apart from what they can offer them monetarily.

Mega Corp.: A corporation so powerful they effectively made Angela their own personal fiefdom.

Would Hurt a Child: Tried to silence the teenage Tagg and Tracer, alongside an older Silent, for stumbling across one of their poaching operations in Hoenn.

You Kill It, You Bought It: Upon putting an end to Pokefutures, the PEFE took all its assets in return for not doing jail time for destabilizing a region's economy, and took its modern form.

FutureOS (PEFeDOS / XANADOS)

An evil AI that was used by Pokefutures, until Tangent and Basket seemingly completely destroyed her in the OU. In the AU she ended up taking over the facility due to not being destroyed. and had the PEFE Founders suffer through her tests. In the Kalos arc, it was revealed that a backup of FutureOS downloaded herself to a supercomputer in Lumiose.

Xanatos Gambit: Her attempt to recreate Missingno; if she had defeated the J-Team, she would have had plenty of time to create and materialize it, even if she couldn't manage to control it. However, even though she lost, she managed to protect a piece of Missingno from resetting by trapping it mid materialization, which was released when the J-Team themselves materialized.

Ferno

Ferno the Charizardδ

A Fire/Dragon Delta Charizard who led the Delta Pokémon who tried to kidnap Pleo to get the legendaries to pay attention to their plight. In reality he considers Deltas superior to regular mons and merely wants to take over.

Ozone note Later Cipher Admin Jet

A Team Ozone Admin that first appeared during the Fortree Pokeringer competition, who ends up betraying Archie and Maxie along with the other Ozealots, and later becomes a Cipher Admin. Is currently possessed by Esprit.

Worf Had the Flu: Tagg managing to seriously injure Annoski left him unable to actually deal with the J-Team directly for most of the arc.

Esprit

Esprit

A rogue priest of Lugia who often attempts possessing people and Pokémon, with a particular interest in Straw's body.

Demonic Possession: Can do it to both humans and mons, and has a particular interest in Straw due to his ability to cheat death. Eventually he uses Elise to collect Straw's DNA in order to make himself a body.

Pet the Dog: Despite being an unrepentant smuggler and even willing to knowingly sell to Cipher, she does treat her own mons well, and only asked that the J-Team didn't separate them once she got arrested.

Torture Technician: Of a sort, his job is to break mons into compliance so that they don't try escaping.

Edge

Edge

A gold and silver Bisharp who leads an army of Pawniard that harasses the J-Team on multiple occasions. Is a Ghost Obscuric, and a powerful one at that. He died from getting stabbed in the chest by Lucius, but came back as a Yamask and later a Delta Cofagrigus currently travelling with Ivy.

Alas, Poor Villain: Edge may be arrogant and merciless, with no apparent reason to assault the J-Team other than petty greed, but his death, when it finally comes, is surprisingly poignant. This is doubled by the revelations later in the story regarding his true identity.

Authority Equals Asskicking: He's the commander of the Pawniard Army, and probably more of a threat than the rest of his army put together.

Due to the Dead: Subverted, Tagg actually lets Rotor eat the corpse upon his expiring, though he tells him to wait until everyone else has left.

Sins of Our Fathers: Due to Lucanus assisting the Ghost Lord in turning him into a Bisharp and ruining his life, Edge decided to take revenge on all of his descendants, having killed plenty of his branch of the Cain family over the centuries.

Soul Power: Surprisingly for a Bisharp, he's a Ghost Obscura user, and a powerful one at that. This is due to Edge actually being Celzvet.

Was Once a Man: Was once Celzvet before Umbra mutated him with Lucanus' help.

Queen Sectonia

A Vespiquen native to the Dream World who sought to take it over using the Dreamstalk.

Time-Limit Boss: Implied, since he was sucking the life force of everyone fighting and he probably did a similar thing to Maggie.

Marianne Heiden

Maria and Lane Heiden's mother, and an abusive, controlling woman who has tried to get them both back under her thumb on multiple occasions.

Abusive Parents: Neglected Lane and smothered Maria to the point that she took a raft made from a washtub from Unova to Fiore just to escape her control.

Everyone Has Standards: Not her, but while Neo-Illusion is hardly comprised of moral individuals, and are enemies of the J-Team, even they find her a repulsive individual for asking them to assassinate her own children.

Evil Matriarch: Or mom in her case, to the Heiden siblings, being their personal worst enemy.

Muninn

An evil Moon Tribe Latios with a grudge against Ever and his team for defeating him and crippling his flying abilities, and a desire to have the Latii take over the planet again. Following his death at the hands of Ever, he was reincarnated as a Mimikyu before getting caught by him during the Alola Arc.

Back from the Dead: During the Alola Arc it's revealed that he won a Spirit Game and came back as a Mimikyu.

Blatant Lies: Tells his sister Huginn when they met again in Alola that he died facing an army of mons, rather than simply from underestimating Ever.

Due to the Dead: Subverted, Ever's mons ended up eating his corpse, and Tagg upon hearing what happened to him only laments that them doing that prevented specimen acquisition.

Exposition Fairy: Serves as a literal one (Since Mimikyu are part Fairy-type) during the Alola Arc to Ever, as he tells him about the Alola region in return for being fed Poké Beans.

Greater-Scope Villain: Re: Glitch reveals that he's this to the Conquest Arc, as alongside his sister Huginn, Muninn was the original creator of the Demon Mutagen and the destroyer of the Moon Tribe. Orochi and Yami finding one of their samples led to the destruction of the Celestials in their search for the Lunar Pendant, and them giving it to Umbra lead him to create the other Demon Generals, and set the events of the Conquest Arc in motion, which had as one result the curse of Cain that inflicts the entire Cain line. If the FEV was indeed derived from it, that would make him one to the Fallout miniarc of PMD-R as well. In other words, more than 7,000 (7,600 if you include PMD-B) years of suffering can be directly or indirectly linked to his machinations.

Handicapped Badass: Even though he can't fly as well as other Latios following his injury, he's still pretty powerful.

Hannibal Lecture: Tells Marmalade just as he's about to rip her wings off in revenge for the crippling of his own that no one will stop him because no one cares about her due to her abrasive nature. Salamence the Altaria proves him wrong on that one.

Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Ever goads him into ramming him out of the Hoenn Champion chamber with Zen Heabutt, which has Muninn impale himself on Every's Skarmory feathers.

Jerkass: He's a massive asshole who's even willing to join Cipher of his own free will in order to further his horrible ends.

Kick the Dog: Used Ever as his toy for most of the Orre arc, and manipulated Pleth under his guise as Must.

Master Race: As far as he's concerned the "lesser species" should just grovel at his kind's non-existent feet.

Meaningful Name: Muninn is named after one of the messenger ravens from Norse Mythology, whose name translates into "memory" or "mind," and used to work under former Cipher Admin Odin.

Morphic Resonance: As Must he has one missing wing, representing the one that got crippled at the climax of the Orre arc.

Was It All a Lie?: When Pleth asks him if he truly felt anything for her after he sheds his Must disguise, he tells her that every moment felt like "exquisite torture."

Revy II

Revy II

A descendant of the pirate of the same name Revy Memito, she sought to track down Jirachi so that she could wish for his revival, entering into conflict with his other descendants. Is currently imprisoned in Latii jail.

And Your Little Dog, Too!: Orders her mons to kill Ever and company's mons in order to force them into compliance when they refuse to help her with her revival scheme.

Badass Crew: Her mons are powerful enough to take on more two or more Champion level opponents at once without breaking a sweat.

Lack of Empathy: Thought little of placing Cornelia inside a suit that ramped up her anger and paranoia to the point of compliance because she wasn't into reviving the original Revy or forcing Ever and co into doing it.

Villainous Legacy: Out of all Revy's descendants, she's the most like him in terms of ruthlessness and evil.

Hygeia (Blissey)

Revy's Blissey, and a ruthless experimenter who uses tools to augment her attacks.

Combat Pragmatist: Has no trouble blinding opponents, seriously injured Dart by slicing open his poison sack with her scalpel, and used liquid nitrogen on Thorn.

Deadly Doctor: She's a murderous Blissey who likes fighting with scalpels and is capable of cutting with literally surgical precision.

Dissonant Serenity: Even while trying to murder people, she keeps a smile on her face while talking like she's treating a patient.

Hoist By Her Own Petard: Dinacia defeats her by hitting her with a Thunder Punch... Which just so happens to conduct with the 255 scalpels, electronic devices, and other metal tools on her person to knock her out at 255 times normal strength.

Mighty Glacier: Circumvents her offensive weaknesses by using weapons and moves that deal fixed amounts of damage, like Seismic Toss.

Elysium (Sawsbuck, male)

Lightning Bruiser: Both fast enough to evade multiple beam attacks at once, and strong enough to oneshot most of All or Ever's Pokemon.

Practical Taunt: In his first appearance, uses Rage Powder to keep Ever and All from working together.

Kusaru

Kusaru Ameno

An aura wielding spirit, brother of Hikaru and thus an ancient relative of Jason's. Bears a grudge against Hikaru's bloodline for defeating and sealing him away when they were both still alive.

Demonic Possession: Attempted to possess Jason by helping to unlock Jason's Auric potential before using it as an outlet to influence him. Is currently successfully possessing another body with no clear indication of the fate of his host.

The Empath: A side effect of his Auric powers. Has a habit of attempting emotional manipulation in order to get what he wants.

Power Incontinence: Never learned to get his empathetic senses under control, and eventually went mad while on a pilgrimage due to sensing too much. Seems to have gained some amount of control during his time as a spirit.

Revenge Through Corruption: His primary goal so far is to take Jason's body for himself as vengeance on Hikaru for sealing him away.

Omnicidal Maniac: Eventually plans to murder everyone so he can finally be alone with his thoughts and emotions.

Nyx

Kusaru's Xatu, little else is known about her.

Nox

Kusaru's Claydol, little else is known about it.

Diz

Kusaru's Bronzong, little else is known about it.

AU and PMD-B Villains

The Seven Jerk Dragons / The Magnificent Seven

The Seven Jerk Dragons / The Magnificent Seven

General Tropes

The main villains of the Return to AU arc, who wish to overthrow humanity and put dragons above all other species.

Towards humans primarily, but they consider non-Dragon-types in general to be inferior. Dragonbloods (Non Dragon-type mons in the Dragon egg group) are treated better than most non-Dragons, but are still considered second class at best compared to "true dragons."

Even within the Dragon's forces, mons considered pseudo-legendaries such as Salamence and Garchomp rank higher than mons such as Altaria and Flygon.

Greater-Scope Villain: For PMD-R, their actions leading directly to the state of PMD-B 600 years in the future despite most of them being long dead.

Master Race: Believe in the inherent inferiority of humans to Pokémon in general, and Dragon-types in particular, encompassed through their Dovahlein philosophy of land for dragons to rule.

Napoleon

Big Bad: Usurps Scolemis as such for the AU, since Cyrus served as more of the Bigger Bad.

Blatant Lies: When Die the Persian suffers a mortal injury, Napoleon lies and says that he's taking Die to his apartment to die in comfort, when instead he actually takes him to a taxidermist to be skinned.

Genius Bruiser: Is probably about as smart as he is strong, and can actually write pretty well.

Hero Killer: Napoleon is an undeniably evil bastard, but he's also a very skilled and powerful evil bastard. Napoleon had a personal hand in the deaths of Mezzo's Black Guard (Though they weren't exactly heroes at the time), beat the crap out of MGMT, killed Mira, managed to seriously injure Lake, and is one of the very few beings to more or less escape the full wrath of the J-Team unharmed.

The Juggernaut: Nothing seems to truly stop him for very long short of Scolipede's giant Hydreigon.

Manipulative Bastard: Manipulated Solana into doing evil in the first place, and then manipulated the Midori Mons into believing that she betrayed them after killing Rose and Eridan.

Dwindling Party: Save for Crowbar and Snowman, all of them die either fighting in the Battle of Castelia, during Napoleon's campaign through Unova, fighting the J-Team, or in the collapse of N's Castle.

Meaningful Name: Midori is Japanese for green, they all wear green, and they're all stationed in a room covered in Felt.

Quirky Miniboss Squad: They're definitely a bunch of weirdos to be sure, even when they're not killing people.

To Serve Man: They often eat the humans that don't take Solana's offer.

Lightning Bruiser: Is both incredibly fast and strong, as well as extremely durable. The J-Team's strategy for fighting him basically boiled down to staying as far away from him as possible while fighting, as well as slowing him down enough to not get instantly slaughtered.

Made of Iron: Managed to take multiple salvos from Tagg, Straw, Fool, Tracer, Every, and Randy's mons, as well as the Celadon Murders that assisted them during the battle.

Malevolent Masked Man: Wears a concealing helmet along with matching armor to hide his scars from getting Aura Sphered in the face by AU!Simo.

Rommel

A Serperior general under Scolemis who was in charge of the Johto invasion during the AU.

Anti-Villain: Noble Demon variety, despite working for an evil empire and to some extent believing in their anti-human philosophy, Rommel isn't exactly evil himself and tries to do his job in the most moral way possible.

Apathetic Citizens: Tries to make his invasion as smooth as possible in order to invoke this by softening thoughts of resistance.

Lelouch

Expendable Alternate Universe: Once the nature of the AU is revealed to him, Lelouch causes Dialga to go completely primal after geassing Cyrus in order to destroy it because he considers the AU to have less worth than the OU it replaced.

Hypnotic Eyes: His geass, which is slightly gimped from the original by making anyone without eye protection do whatever Lelouch wants for only 24 hours as opposed to forever.

Multiversal Conqueror: Their ultimate plan was to reach the Entralink in Unova, and use it to attack and conquer all other universes, turning the inhabitants into Super Mutants.

Religion of Evil: The Children of the Cathedral, who serve as the Unity's public front.

Was Once a Man: Super Mutants were humans or normal mons before becoming dipped. Full humans and humons tend to be the most likely to keep their intelligence, while pure mons often become mentally impaired.

Psychic Powers: So powerful that without using the blockers Tagg's group would've been mentally crippled upon entering his chamber.

Talking the Monster to Death: Like in the games, Tagg and the Vault Dweller point out that the sterility of the Super Mutants means that his plot is ultimately doomed to failure, causing him to commit suicide by blowing up the Cathedral.

Voice of the Legion: Has a synthetic voice, his own voice, and the voices of humans and mons he has assimilated.

Family-Unfriendly Death: Emperor Archeops uses an Earthquake on his head, and he starts liquefying and imploding before Ana telekinetically hurls him into one of the forcefields after Tagg's fails to do so with his Aura chains, vaporizing him.

Faux Affably Evil: Unlike the Master, he's a bit of a sadist and rather condescending while being technically polite.

Small Name, Big Ego: Thinks he's a lot more powerful than he really is. Tagg's Xatu points out to him that to his teammates, some of whom have actually fought godlike beings before, he's little more than a footnote.

Orochi

Orochi, or Vulziistrunmahnote lit "dark spirit mountain" in Draconic, was an eight-headed Hydreigon fought by Ammy's group in the Moon Cave both 600 and 700 years ago. Fond of drink, he and Yami were the first mons to be mutated by the Demon Mutagen.

108: According to legend his bell-scar actually rings 108 times for each desire of its sacrifice.

Affably Evil: After initially considering eating her he got on well with Duolis.

The Alcoholic: Is so much of a drunk that the Ghost Lord decides that he'd be better off finding a Hydreigon without that weakness once he dies

Greater-Scope Villain: Shares this role with Yami as they invaded the Celestial Plain and slaughtered the Celestials 2,000 years before the Conquest arc, sending the Ark of Yamato to Earth, and introduced the Demon Mutagen to the Ghost Lord.

The Heavy: The Ghost Lord might be the ultimate villain, and Yami the penultimate final boss, but Orochi is the driver of the first portion of the plot.

Multiple Head Case: Unlike other Hydreigon, he has eight heads, four main heads with four pairs of head-hands.

Nice Hat: Each head has its own helmet displaying the kanji for its element.

Orcus on His Throne: Orochi tends to like sitting around, getting drunk, and eating maidens once every 100 years.

Screw This, I'm Outta Here!: Unlike his game counterpart, only his power was sealed 100 years ago, Nagi merely managed to seriously injure him and the Hydreigon retreated.

Cruel and Unusual Death: Ammy's group slices all her tails off during their battle, and Tagg finishes her off with a disembowelment after thinking she managed to kill Lucius. Well deserved, but not a pleasant way to go at all.

Cunning Like a Fox: Disguised herself as a priestess and managed to fool the whole group, using them to get the Fox Rods needed to restore her to full power.

Time Master: Through unknown methods, they can freeze and slow down time. Word of God reveals that at some point they'd managed to acquire the Emerald Star that later appears in the TYD miniarc, though this hasn't been learned yet in-universe.

Greater-Scope Villain: Shares this role with Orochi as they invaded the Celestial Plain and slaughtered the Celestials 2,000 years before the Conquest arc, sending the Ark of Yamato to Earth, and introducing the Demon Mutagen to the Ghost Lord.

Sadist: Being a horrible human being is practically a prerequisite to being hired, and many enjoy the pain of others.

The Syndicate: Cipher is a criminal empire with operatives in every region, though they tend to keep a low profile.

Villain Team-Up: At least one surviving cell made an alliance with Neo-Flare.

Would Hurt a Child: If you're not needed alive and happen to be a threat or liability, Cipher has no problems rubbing you out no matter how young you are.

Cipher Grandmaster Ardos

Cipher's Grandmaster following the capture of Greevil and Eldes.

Bad Boss: Implied, since the Orre Admins did not want him getting directly involved in Orre's events, and in his backstory he was going to blow up Citadark Isle and everyone on it after Greevil lost to Micheal. It's also worth noting that following the fall of the Orre branch most if not all of the Cipher personnel who escaped the J-Team didn't try coming back to him.

Greater-Scope Villain: Despite being responsible for most of the proto-J-Team's early foes, and the man everyone in Cipher answers to, he has yet to be directly opposed by the J-Team, with only Gamer, Silent, and Ever having met him directly, and only the latter getting a chance to battle him, however briefly.

Badass Normal: Is Tagg's superior in a straight fight, managing to beat him into near unconsciousness during their final confrontation, and it's likely that had he not threatened the lives of his loved ones and gloated he would've successfully killed him.

Frontline General: More Admin, but though he tends to hang back for the most part, Tokarev has no issue going on field missions with his men.

Hero Killer: As mentioned above he and Verax managed to come closest to killing Tagg out of anyone in the RP up to that point.

Hired Guns: After leaving the military, he spent several years as a mercenary.

Hoist by His Own Petard: While Tagg had plans on killing him anyway, the Mind Rape mentioned below and threatening his friends and girlfriend led to his defeat.

Honor Before Reason: Decides to just leave with the Cipher scientist instead of gunning down the J-Team while they're stunned, though he could've just thought going through with it would be a waste of time.

Knight of Cerebus: Things got a lot darker once he showed up to collect the last Cipher scientist in Holon.

Mind Rape: Does this to Tagg by having their second meeting after Holon take place in the very same spot where they first met, and having a mind-controlled Ever and Shadowed Crewe try to kill him.

Only in It for the Money: He's only loyal to Cipher for as long as he's being paid, and cares little about Shadowing mons.

Pistol-Whipping: His favorite method for dealing with defiant individuals is to smack them with the butt of his pistol.

Poirot Speak: Is hinted to be from a Russian analogue region in particular due to his language patterns.

Pragmatic Villainy: Had Verax take out Leng mainly because he was going around assassinating people Tokarev didn't want dead. Tokarev likes professionals, not psychotics.

Reformed, but Rejected: A lot of the J-Team only tolerates his presence at best due to him nearly killing several of them. Lucius for instance absolutely despises him and beat him down unprovoked, and his own purified Shadows stick with him mainly due to the Vow rather than any true love for him. Tagg is surprisingly one of the only J-Team members who doesn't despise him despite having tried to kill him in their last fight, though he doesn't trust him fully until sometime after the Ranger-2 Arc.

Sadist: Though he doesn't actually like it, he's just mostly incapable of feeling joy unless it's through others suffering. After his Heel–Face Turn it stops.

Signature Move: Balthazar, his Shadow Hydreigon, who remains his signature mon even after being purified.

Cipher Commandernote later Admin Paula Jaide

A Cipher operative that was originally a regular trainer with an affinity for finding things underground, until she met Diane and Skye after "catching" the former by finding her buried ball. After Skye defeated her and won back Diane, she decided to join Cipher originally for revenge, rising to the rank of Commander, before later becoming an Admin of Special Acquisitions following her Snagging of Mt. Battle's Heatran. She gets trapped in PMD-A thanks to Grace, returns to the OU thanks to an Unown swarm, but after failing her task has her memories stripped from her, which form into an aspect that is sealed at Dashedreams City. After managing to escape due to Glitch activity, she becomes leader of Team Skulls remnants in Po Town.

Gets a star shaped visor in the make of Simon after catching and Shadowing the Heatran of Mt. Battle and becoming an Admin as a result. Diane ends up breaking them with a punch to the face. She somehow gets the visor back after making a deal with the Unown to return to the AU.

After being spun off from Rose, she wears shades to hide her Glitch eyes.

Determinator: Never gives up on her goals, no matter how reprehensible, showing the dark side of this trope.

Heel Realization: Appears to have had one as a result of her exile, and the Paula that Rose meets in Po Town is far less evil than she used to be, though still not the nicest person.

Humiliation Conga: When the J-Team raids the Special Acquisitions base, Dune and Umbra snag her Heatran and Prism the Togekiss respectively, Diane punches her in the face, and finally Grace takes her to PMD-A to live the rest of her life as a Pokémon in an environment ill suited for her species.

Mook Promotion: Ends up becoming becoming an Admin of Special Acquisitions following her Snagging of Mt. Battle's Heatran.

Pet the Dog: Cares about the Skull Grunts enough that she doesn't want them getting thrashed in a direct confrontation with the J-Team, which is why she keeps a low profile.

Reformed, but Not Tamed: While Paula's not quite a villain anymore, readily admitting that what she did during Orre was wrong (If not in the most tactful fashion), she still has her rough edges and a trollish streak, particularly towards Rose.

These Are Things Man Was Not Meant to Know: Reveals to Verax during the Entralink Arc that she's gained meta powers thanks to the very Glitch that gave her freedom, which actually hurt her to use and creep her out on some level.

Thou Shalt Not Kill: While she has no issue with emotional pain, Paula doesn't believe in murder. This starts to change after she suffers numerous failures at the hands of the J-Team, and during the last fight she does indeed fight to kill.

Took a Level in Jerkass: Goes from merely incredibly pushy and entitled to a Cipher member hellbent on revenge on Skye and Diane, and willing to use Shadowfication to do so.

Cipher Commander Iulianus/Leander Kraus

A commander in Cipher's R&D department. He could care less about Cipher's goals and is ultimately trying to find a way to stop uncontrollable, rampaging wild Pokémon, after an incident in his past that cost him his right eye. He forms a group of eight scientists to help him reach that goal.

He is later revealed to be Leander Kraus, the son of a childhood friend of Zeal's mother and uncle. He is ultimately killed by Zeal's red-eyed aspect at the end of the Orre arc.

Affably Evil: Tends to come off as polite, if somewhat distant, in casual conversation.

Eye Scream: Lost his right eye to a rampaging wild Pokémon. It is later revealed that this was a Sneasel.

Kick the Dog: He wholeheartedly supports Wound's powered armor's use of mons' life energy as a backup power source.

Undying Loyalty: Ironically, given her name, she is probably the most loyal member of the Octet. She's the only one by Iulianus' side when the Large Underground Room is attacked. That loyalty is the cause of her death.

Shadow Archetype: To the J-Team, both groups being made up of misfits and seeking to create a better world, though the Illusion Project is far more organized as a group compared to the J-Team's Ragtag Bunch of Misfits who are held together loosely by shared experiences.

Sharp Dressed Man: Illusion Project members wear silver suits, though their officers can break from the uniform.

Odd Friendship: Between her and Sparkers. One is an unrepentant criminal and murderer. The other is a proponent of justice (never mind the fact that he's an Arcanine). Despite this, they have a genuine friendship.

Shout-Out: All of her mons are named after things.. We have Emilie the Kricketune, Jimi the Bouffalant, and Ophelia the Lilligant. Her Froslass, Bathory, is named after a famous murderess, Elizabeth Bathory. And more recently, we have Clara the Zangoose (Clara Schumann) Camille the Mismagius (Camille Saint-Saens) and Joanna the Flygon (Joanna Newsom).

The Stoic: Emilie, her Kricketune, remains calm in almost every situation.

Team Neo-Galactic

General Tropes

Cape Busters: Neo-Galactic has specialized Grunts particularly for taking down Aurics called Excubitors.

Cain and Abel: Killed his own abusive brother who later became a Pokémon smuggler, prying Sidious' ball from his corpse.

Cold Ham: Despite his stoicism he has a flair for the dramatic, especially while battling.

Cynicism Catalyst: Used to be part of a J-Team-esque group of trainers called the Wanderers before they dissolved after defeating an unknown foe who managed to break their bonds, leading him on the path to become the man he is in the present.

The Empath: Is Aura-sensitive, which is ironic considering his desire of a world free of emotion.

Evil Uncle: To Psyche, Trip, and Trish. Especially in Psyche's case since he didn't bother taking her in once she got abandoned.

Heel Realization: Has one after Lucius and Psyche work together in order to have the former give him a "Reason You Suck" Speech, though it's not quite enough to fully make him stop his plans right until the Ranger-2 arc.

Kick the Dog: Despite not being completely evil, Titan has shown himself to be capable of doing some really dickish acts such as:

Having Regina Shadowed mainly to prove a point to Jacob about how unmatched he was, sending him into a Heroic B.S.O.D..

Wicked Cultured: He's very well-spoken, his Pokemon are named after the letters of the Greek alphabet, and he often quotes Shakespeare in conversation. However, he is incapable of speaking the Pokéverse equivalent of Latin.

You Are a Credit to Your Race: Tells Crow that he did well "for a Murkrow" after a successful mission in the Haruba Desert, and thinks of Omega as different from other mons.

The aforementioned having Shadow!Crewe attack Straw on his birthday solely to make him suffer.

When Maggie and Tide confront her on Shadowing the latter, especially given the fact that Tide was her original starter, she replies that Tide is "far more useful when she can actually work up the guts to hurt something instead of cowering in the corner."

Crazy-Prepared: He knew exactly what to do to keep Lyuri under his command and no matter what they tried, Crow, Duke, Lucius and Lyuri could do nothing to stop him from escaping, he successfully knocked out Ghostus to prevent a Mean Look and bluffed about a hostage and once that plan failed against Lucius, who blocked all exits through Gamma, he simply teleported out with a Gallade's help.

Faux Affably Evil: He's silly and keeps a very casual attitude, which only makes his sadism even more noticeable.

Enigmatic Minion: Nothing is known about him other than his name and even then it's hard to tell if it's his real one or not. As we learn later, it isn't.

Everyone Has Standards: Just about everyone, hero and villain alike, dislikes Alexiel, with Titan only letting him stay around in Neo-Galactic because he's useful and makes it very clear that he'll kill him if he tries to betray him.

Morality Pet: His sister, Alexia, and his Zoroark seem to be the only things he cares about, at least he cares enough about the latter enough to not turn it into a Shadow Pokémon. In Alexia's case, it's subverted when it's revealed that she was Lyuri and that she was blackmailed by him into working for Cipher.

Cipher Commander/Neo-Galactic Commander Brent Mammor

A Cipher operative working under Tokerev. A Commander in Cipher that was passed up for a promotion due to a mistake on the part of a subordinate (though it was blamed on Mammor). Contemptuous and self serving, Mammor only desire is to be promoted to Admin.

Humiliation Conga: Mammor receives one at the end of the Orre Arc. It starts with his bomb being a dud, and then it just gets worse for Mammor from there. With Sam Mean Looking the Shadow Natu; Karliah stealing his whip; Ren snagging four of Mammor's Shadow mons; Lady and Jack wiping the floor with Mammor's mons; Devilotte and her Army of Deltas preventing an Explosion AND preventing a clean escape; Hecate and Pierre evolving and severely burning Mammor's right hand with a combo; Mini!Optimus Prime knocking Mammor down a hole in the floor Mammor created himself; and final had a No Holds Barred Beat Down by Fem!Pent, Jack, and Lady.

Mammor does this with an Electrode to Pent, Sam, and Tesse via Teleport during the Resources raid.

Then he pulls it again on the same three during the R+D raid.

Attempted twice during the finale. The first time the the bomb turned out to be a dud. The second time Mammor ordered his Shadow Golem to use Explosion, but this was stopped due to the timely arrival of a Delta Psyduck with the Damp ability.

Whip It Good: Mammor has a glowing red energy whip as his personal weapon.

Anka Motyl

A young woman from the Pokeverse analogue of Poland who more or less joined for the paycheck and serves as their medic.

Animal Motifs: Hers happen to be butterflies, specifically Vivillon, of which she has every known variety.

The Bus Came Back: It's revealed during the Unova Neo-Flare raid that she ended up with them following Neo-Galactic's collapse.

Punch-Clock Villain: Is really only with Neo-Galactic, and later Neo-Flare, for the paycheck and isn't personally evil.

The Medic: Has some medical training due to her father being a doctor.

Zrone Dyspav

A paranoid Sinn madman bent on creating a new universe where mankind is no longer reliant on Pokémon.

Cyborg: Has cybernetics (His skeletal structure, respiratory, and circulatory systems) combined with an exoskeleton, including a powerful laser fired from his cybernetic left eye.

Evil Is Petty: Zrone doesn't take losses well, and has Tagg and others on his hit list for their part in disrupting his plans.

Gadgeteer Genius: Has built robot guardians, robots with functioning Protean abilities, performed his own cyborg enhancement surgeries, invented an indestructible defense system, a staff that manipulates time-space, and a massive bipedal artillery robot that could sustain attacks from three full teams at once while giving as good as it got. Required, since he knows he's so awful at working with his own Pokémon, he has to make up for it.

Half the Man He Used to Be: Gets torn in half during the Boyleland Heatran's rampage, but survives due to being a cyborg and puts himself back together by the time of the Avalon battle, though it still leaves Tagg, Blitz, and Jacob wondering how he managed to survive that.

Lack of Empathy: His reaction when Tagg cites his crimes of unethical experimentation, attempted murder, and tendency to backstab as reasons he and the others refuse to form a partnership with him to fight Glitches during Re: Glitch is to simply remark that he sees all lives as expendable, including his own.

The Paranoiac: Zrone is an extremely paranoid person who trusts next to no one.

Pet the Dog: Despite being a pretty awful person most of the time, he just lets PEFE!Every go when he comes to collect her even though he sees right through Ever's bluff and even states he'll just tell Team Iron that she left before he saw them.

Pragmatic Villainy: When trying to form an alliance with the J-Team he argues that he'll continue his experiments but leave them alone because fighting them hasn't turned out well for him.

Smug Snake: The only thing bigger than Zrone's paranoia is perhaps his sense of arrogance, especially when he thinks he's won.

Super Mode: Had several Key Stones for Mega Evolving several mons at once.

Time Master: When using his special staff, which turns out to be an artificial Arceus egg. During the Boyleland battle he used it to rewind the damage his mons took, as well as suspend Aya and Gogie in time.

General Tropes

Badass Longcoat: The Admins all wear long black longcoats and are incredibly skilled trainers.

Politically Incorrect Villain: Apart from Constantin's own racism, the rank and file Grunts tend to fall in with his fascist ideology, with Brie (Pokéverse Hispanic) and Shun (Pokéverse Black/Japanese) being called racial epithets during the Neo-Flare raid.

Stupid Jetpack Hitler: Thanks to Lex, they perfected new forms of technology using Infinity Energy such as an Infinity Ring that creates artificial Aurics, or the Infinity Ball that induces a false Mega state that puts the Pokémon in question in excruciating pain.

Illusion Member/Neo-Flare Boss Constantin Perilloux

A former member of Team Flare under Mathilde with a crush on Sol and a burning hatred of Tagg. He also happens to be Odin's cousin.

Abusive Parents: Mentions that his father treated him badly due to his powers, and his mother was neglectful.

Ambiguous Disorder: He has something off with him, showing signs of sociopathy/APD, bi-polarism and schizophrenia in particular, but the exact disorder remains unknown due to his refusal to see a psychologist.

Arch-Enemy: Due to his sustained antagonism of Tagg and fascist views, there is a great mutual enmity between them.

Aristocrats Are Evil: From a formerly aristocratic family, grew up in an aristocratic environment, and nasty as hell.

Desperately Craves Affection: Due to being neglected and abused as a child, he desperately craves the love and affection of others in an incredibly unhealthy manner.

Dirty Coward: His antagonism of Tagg doesn't go so well when Umbra and Vierr happen to be around, so he withdraws, though not without warning him that now that he's involved the rest of the J-Team in their fight, he'll come after them as well.

Eye Scream: In his third fight involving Tagg, Sol manages to crush his left eye with one of her Obscura tentacles in a surprise attack.

Expy: In line with the rest of the Neo-Flare Admins. While appearance wise he was based on France, personality and motive wise he was based heavily on Dio Brando.

From Nobody to Nightmare: Were it not for Constantin joining the Illusion Project to antagonize Tagg and gaining an easy way to attract followers, while still dangerous for his Flare ties and psychic powers, Constantin would've just been a random racist asshole living in Shalour. But since that did happen, Constantin got the resources he needed to create his new villain group once Illusion disbanded.

Green-Eyed Monster: His envy and jealousy of Tagg for being Fool's boyfriend is the main reason for his seething hatred. Especially when coupled with his racism.

Hero Killer: Managed to kill both Tagg and Sol in Salvador's native timeline.

Hindu Mythology: According to Word of God, Constantin's habits in combat are based on that of the Hindu goddess Kali, though he is not even close to a good force like she is.

Impoverished Patrician: Was rich until his parents squandered the family fortune, and he spent the rest on Team Flare membership.

In Love with the Mark: Was originally Fool's guide in Kalos because Team Flare wanted info on the J-Team in case they came to blows, but ended up falling in love with her.

Internalized Categorism: Despite the fact that he is quite racist, he himself is half Romani from his father's side. He's aware of this and hates himself for it, but feels that it traps him to be nothing more than a thief.

Love Hungry: Before it was revealed how much of an ass he was, he attempted to deceive and manipulate Solana into loving him over Tagg. Even going as far as attempted sabotage of their relationship and outright attempted murder.

Despite being racist and kind of a bully he's friendly towards children.

He also seems to genuinely care about his Pokémon. Specifically Shaka and Kahina.

Politically Incorrect Villain: As a former Flare member, he still shares their philosophy on what should be done with "deadwood" and is quite racist, having referred to Tagg as a "filthy negré" on two separate occasions.

Worthy Opponent: Admits during his confrontation with Tagg and Sol that he's gained a grudging respect for them due to their being such massive thorns in his side, though it just makes him want to take their heads as trophies upon killing them.

Shaka the Gallade

Foil: To Muddy, as the two mons have been with their trainers for roughly similar amounts of time, but their interpretations of the Vow differ. This also stretches to their fighting styles, as like the rest of Tagg's mons he tends to be a Barrier Warrior while Shaka's style is mostly offensive.

Neo-Flare Admin Maria von Boehm

A feisty, vain and beautiful PokeGerman weapons enthusiast who heads the Espionage & Interrogation department of Neo-Flare, as well as managing the Armory and recruit training. She is quite the flirt, and constantly peruses Constantin.

All Girls Want Bad Boys: Has a preference for the none-too-nice guys who give her the cold shoulder. Though it's understandable, as she isn't a paragon of purity herself.

An Axe to Grind: The massive halberd she carries around is one of her defining characteristics.

In Love with Love: It's been implied that Maria seems to be more in love with the concept of being in love than actually being in love herself. Since all of her previous relationships have ended in disaster (for them at least).

Genius Ditz: While there's no doubt he's a brilliant inventor, he's rather dopey when it comes to interacting with other people. He's also a Horrible Judge of Character who tends to make bad decisions without Salvador or his sister Lucrece there to guide him.

Just Following Orders: Most of his actions in Neo-Flare by this point are more of Constantin's commands than any actual real malice on Lex's part.

Neo-Flare Secretary Marcus C. Rothschild

Maria's suave and stoic PokeBritish Hypercompetent Sidekick. Incredibly formal and business minded, he manages Finance and Stocktake in Neo-Flare. He used to be a member of Neo-Illusion but got transferred because of a deal between Maria and Neo-Illusion admin Mathilde.

Neo-Flare Admin Liú

The recently hired Manager of the Armory and "Public Relations." A serene and calm [Shanghainese] man, he was already an established arms and drug dealer in the underground world before being hired by Neo-Flare.

Bile Fascination: The only reason he joined Neo Flare in the first place is because he was curious about Lex's inventions and Constantin's knowledge of the Gates. He otherwise has no true loyalty towards Neo Flare. invoked

We Will Meet Again: Yells this after losing to Chrome and company for the final time for the Orre arc.

Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Has a massive phobia of the Beldum line in general and Metagross in particular, which Tokarev mocks him about at one point. This ends up being because his father was killed by Chrome during his rescue of Lina. He manages to get over it by the Orre climax though, unfortunately for Chrome.

Director Cid/Cidolfus Demen Bunansa

An ex-Galactic and Cipher member and scientist extraordinaire. He is a quiet, bitter old man who cares little for matters outside his lab. Given a Commander position and his own lab so as to not come into inevitable conflict with other scientists due to his terrible interpersonal skills.

Black Box: The Feng Shui engine he created seems to enhance the Auric capabilities of the user... It might also have other side effects, especially on the user's psyche.

Juri

Leslie and Martin Dekalb-Owens

Former Pokefutures personnel, and the parents of PEFE!Every.

Abusive Parents: See nothing wrong with, in order: Letting their daughter wander a dangerous facility alone, abandoning her in said facility before she was a teenager, blackmailing their daughter into working with them upon determining her identity, separating her from her Pokémon, holding her hostage, and manipulating her emotions to make her more cooperative.

Blessed with Suck: Being turned into a Mew is normally a pretty cool thing, but not so much when your own legendary-killing creation has decided to turn on you.

Creepy Monotone: They don't emote much and stick to short yet verbose sentences while speaking, making them very creepy individuals.

More Deadly Than the Male: Leslie tends to be the more active of the pair in villainy, and unlike Martin she very quickly figures out her new Mew body and attempts to kill Ever personally before her own death.

The Dividual: They're one unit, always. This is a deliberate choice on their part.

Dumb Muscle: Since they view Pokémon as nonsapient, and mainly breed their mons for obedience, they're only good for smashing things.

PEFE!Every's more amoral tendencies appear to have been picked up from them, though unlike Leslie and Martin she does have some sense of right and wrong.

Her parents also appear to be the reason why she tends to monologue.

Karmic Death: First, Mew Prime turns them into Mew, and by extension gives them the ability to understand Monese, and then Ever attracts Unigma towards them and throws Martin at him, who is quickly dispatched with a single Enigma Slice. Then, when Leslie attempts to murder Ever, Unigma attacks her, and she Teleports out of the way... only for PEFE!Every's teleport blocker, which is still active, to disassemble her into her constituent subatomic particles.

Lack of Empathy: They offer no apologies for their actions, no support for the suffering they cause, and view everything besides themselves as an experiment to be tested.

Not So Stoic: When Martin dies, Leslie gets visibly enraged and tries to kill Ever for turning PEFE!Every against her, killing her husband, destroying Unigma, and shattering her worldview.

Offing the Offspring: Once PEFE!Every has helped them perfect Project Fenrir, and she insults them to their faces for adding the power core, they decide she's outlived her usefulness and have their mons try to kill her.

Parental Abandonment: Left PEFE!Every to wander the lower levels of the Pokefutures facility because they were too busy to retrieve her, and then abandoned her for good during the takeover of the facility by the PEFE.

Parental Neglect: They basically just left PEFE!Every to her own devices as they worked, leading to her own poor social skills.

Pet the Dog: Despite their general lack of redeeming features, at the very least they accept their daughter's gender identity without complaint, even mentioning that they've done similar if not as extensive modifications to themselves.

Playing with Syringes: They spent their time at Pokefutures doing all manner of unethical experimentation, and over the more than nine years between its fall and the Entralink Arc they continued doing so for various evil organizations before joining Team Iron.

Slasher Smile: Leslie indulges in these when Martin isn't around, most notably when she gives off a wicked grin to Lilac's yacht when it shows up before directly referencing her fae heritage.

Start of Darkness: Downplayed in that Leslie was always at least a little amoral, but she truly got locked into villainy upon learning about her heritage from testing Lilac/Tapu Lele's scales and swearing she'd rise above "some beast".

Uneven Hybrid: Leslie is part fae, and it's the one thing she's never told Martin about. And not just any fairy, she's descended from Tapu Lele, making her Semi-Divine.

Unholy Matrimony: They're married and villains, and almost all of their mons are mated to one another as well.

Project Fenrir, aka Unigma

An experimental Pokémon made by the Dekalb-Owens with the help of their daughter.

Alas, Poor Villain: PEFE!Every is saddened by her creation's death and comforts him as he dies.

Attack Its Weak Point: Doc and Tagg's Victini, alongside Otherverse Every's mons, fell him by attacking the power core installed by Leslie and Martin.

Barrier Change Boss: His unique Ability, Hyper Scale, allows him to change to the best type needed to resist a given attack, while also allowing him to use a move of any type needed to kill its opponent.

Deadly Upgrade: Martin and Leslie, against PEFE!Every's advice, outfit him with a power core that amplifies his abilities astronomically. However, it also proves unstable, and ends up causing him to die within an hour in-universe.

Kill the God: His purpose is to kill legendaries, he proves to nearly be a match for Tagg's Victini, and actually kills Martin once he's transformed into a Mew. However, both Tagg and Echo note that despite being truly dangerous, he lacks the metaphysics breaking abilities of Glitches and therefore would likely not do as well against the higher legendaries.

Your Days Are Numbered: Only has a few hours to live as a result of Leslie and Martin's modifications, and dies soon after his power core is destroyed. His entire life spans the course of less than an hour in-universe.

The School

In General

Child Soldiers: They have their psychic children do missions alone, but they're formidable enough that it doesn't matter, though they have teleporters and paramilitary forces on standby.

The Conspiracy: Are deeply locked in both international business and government, to the point that Deziree asks Tagg not to tell the rest of the J-Team about them until they play their hand publicly, lest they come down on the group like a hammer.

Designer Babies: Have such a command of genetics that they can create babies from virtual scratch using genetic templates as a basis.

Evilutionary Biologist: The School has as its goal creating the ultimate psychic using their repository of genetic templates.

Grave Robbing: While not stated onscreen, they had to get those genetic templates straight from the source somehow.

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